Homeopathy
One of the members told me that there are a few on here that use homeopathy and I was wondering how many of you and how seasoned you are. I have been using homeopathy for about 3 years and have had so many amazing experiences. I use it with all of my family and our animals. I would love to start making my own remedies from herbs at some point and learn to use the herbs themselves. I believe that there is a place for all of the different types of home medicines in my medicine cabinet. I would love to hear some of your favorite home remedies and I would love to share my favorites.
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One of my most used remedies is Arnica. It is best not taken in tincture form due to risk of gastric distress and other possible complications, But taking it homeopathically is very safe and very effective for bruising, blunt force trauma, shock. I might give it for stroke or heart attack on the way to the hospital.
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I have always felt for the last 40 years homeopathy saved my life. I'm still here only because of it.
While in the US Army I caught a viral infection which settled in my lungs, chest etc. My bunkmate above me had it and in trying to help her out, I caught it too, after the fact. By that I mean, the base hospital had no clue how to help her. They sent her to a larger base hospital with the same results. She just steadily got worse. Ended up they sent her back to the barracks and discharged her from the Army. She was on her way home within 24 hours after being released from the hospital.
During this week she was in the two hospitals, I noticed I was coming down with what seemed to be a cold. I was in advanced training at the time so it really was a nuisance. The "cold" though kept getting worse. Finally I got my hands on a telephone and called my bunkmate at her home. Unfortunately, 3 days after she got home she died. No one ever found out what she had or how to help her.
Well, I was right... I did have her "cold". I have always been "healthy as a horse" so my immune system was constantly trying to fight it off. I'd get a little better, then get it back full force again. I went thru two decades of my life, always slightly sick, occasionally terribly sick and different degrees in between.
I spent 20 years going thru this cycle. Every time I would get it again full force, when I get a little better, it was harder to get better. The illness routine was now 10 months sick, 2 months a little better, every year. Conventional medicine the whole time had no clue what to do either. Test after test, drug after drug, increasing dosages of every antibiotic on the market, and on and on it went. Finally I was taking antibiotics, three different kinds in triple dosages every two hours, all day long every day for over two weeks. I was sicker from the meds than I was from the disease. I finally said enough was enough... I'm going to have to make myself better if anything good is going to come out of this situation. Because it was obvious, I wasn't going to be able to fight this off for very much longer.
So I started reading, everything! And eventually I found homeopathy. I'd already tried a few other programs with no success since I was now my own doctor. So everything became trial and error to find some kind of hope. Homeopathy did give me that hope.
This was at least 30 years ago. There was no one to ask questions of in those days so the whole wellness program was just trial and error on my part. But all that reading did give me answers.
I started one remedy and actually felt a little better. Kept reading and mixed a few remedies and still got a little better. That process did take years also but it was slowly working. By about 5 years later I actually could say I felt human again. I could get out among people again because they actually stopped avoiding me since I was well enough they couldn't figure out I was terribly sick.
Thankfully today, homeopathy is becoming more well-known. There is more practitioners which are knowledgable in the field. Now all we have to constantly fight with is the FDA and CDC etc. so we can continue to have the right to use this field of medicine.
As I said at the beginning, I am only still here because I just happened to find the right book, which led me to other sources and eventually to a cure. It took me about 10 years of homeopathic remedies until I found the right combinations to eliminate whatever that infection was but it's gone and now I no longer have any problems with that illness.
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Great success story @greyfurball. I am also in better health than I might have been without homeopathy. Same for my husband. His whole family has age related health issues and are on a variety of meds. He will be 70 on his next birthday and takes no meds (other than a couple of supplements). We are very fortunate to have a good homeopath as well as a support group of other homeopaths and other alternative practitioners.
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@greyfurball My oh my! Such a great story. I, too, have been using homeopathy for over 30 years.
A few years after we started our dog got sick. Turned out that he had double pneumonia that required $100 per dose antibiotics, but they didn't work. There was this buzzsaw like rasp to his breathing. The vet didn't know how he was alive as there was only 1/2" of air space in his lungs. We were a young couple with four kids and no money so my mother-in-law footed the vet bill as my husband loved the dog. The dog was going to have to have an expensive procedure (>$1000) to find out what was wrong or he was going to die.
About a month before our dog got sick, we were in a children's clothing store about an hour from home. The only thing in the store to buy was clothing, except that on the way out of the store on a little table there were a couple of bottles of a children's homeopathic cough medicine. I figured that for less than $5.00 we could try it. It was put on a shelf and forgotten until I came across it searching for something to try on the dog.
I was very nervous as it was a "human" medicine. I was out of my comfort zone to say the least, but gave him some. By that evening, his rasp was minimal. We were astounded. I looked up all of the remedies in the bottle and found one that matched his buzzsaw breathing and gave just that single remedy. The next morning he was fine, breathing and up playing with the kids. Of course we cancelled the vet procedure and later found a homeopathic vet, which he didn't need for years.
The single remedy was used again when my son had the same buzzsaw breathing and to our delight the remedy worked just as fast if not faster. Of course we have many, many stories of homeopathy saving our lives, but I will never forget the lessons I learned with the cough medicine and our dog.
Making your own remedies is great because you will always have them no matter which pharmaceutical company owns the government.
I'm always up for a homeopathic chat as there is always something to learn.
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@frogvalley I saw a comment you made in another thread and thought it might be best to continue the conversation here. You mentioned that Vithoulkas was taking Arnica daily. Do you have a link to the article? I would very much like to read his thoughts on that.
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Yay! I'm so excited to hear y'alls stories. I haven't had anything quite that amazing, but have used homeopathy in sooooo many ways in our life. Just last week, our dog got ahold of one of the turkeys and messed him up pretty bad. He wouldn't move and he was very stiff. I knew he was a gonner. I decided to give him arnica mixed with hypericum which is something I use quite often and I put it in his water and he wouldn't even drink, so, I dipped his beak into the water, waited a few moments and did it again and after about 10 minutes, he was drinking the water on his own and a half hour later he was up walking. That night I put the remedies in his water again and then once more in the morning. I also sprayed calendula on his open wounds, which is a whole other story, we have so many awesome stories with calendula, but long story short, he is doing amazing and is back to his old self.
If anyone wants to hear more, I have so many stories. I am very sad that something so safe is under attack. I am so afraid of not being able to buy homeopathy. One very well known organization said it was dangerous, but then also said it was just a placebo and they had to protect Americans from wasting their money on a placebo. Not in those exact words, but you get the idea. I love homeopathy and want to scream it from the top of a mountain!
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My daughter (who is under the control of some religious characters) has declared homeopathy "New Age" and not to be used in her household. Oh dear! These are the same people who told her not to take raspberry leaf tea because it can cause the fetus to abort. I won't go into detail about the type of people spreading that, but what is going around on the internet can help or hurt depending on how you use it. The problem with many people is that they are monetizing the web and don't bother to investigate the research when they post something. It's like posting "Music Kills" but the research the article was talking about demonstrated that a piano dropped from a height of 100 feet it will kill a person under it.
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I use natural remedies to aid in wound healing, as daily vitamins, and as immune boosters during the cold winter months.
My homemade first-aid salve reduces the swelling and itch of bug bites, heals scratches faster than usual, and relieves the itch from cucumber and squash plants.
Fiery Cider tamed my hubby's cough and sniffles in three days.
My super dried green mix, mixed with raw honey, is my daily vitamin that maintains my health and boosts my immune system.
Goldenrod tea relieved my seasonal allergy symptoms without OTC pills.
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@frogvalley Wow! That's crazy about the Red Raspberry leaf tea. 20 years ago when my husband I were going to birthing classes they told us about Red Raspberry leaf tea for opening the cervix and possibly having an faster birth. I drank it every night like she said and I had my oldest daughter naturally (no meds) in 1 hour and 59 minutes. A couple years later I drank the tea again and had my second daughter in 1 hour and 30 minutes. I bought it for every shower I went to after that for many years. I don't think very many believed me but oh well.
@Brindy That was my first experience with anything homeopathic or natural and I didn't try any homeopathy until a couple years ago.
My oldest daughter had her wisdom teeth out and was not doing well so I looked up homeopathy for surgery (I'd heard about it form a couple interviews and videos I'd watched) and bought something I can't remember at Sprout's. She was feeling better the next day and recovered well with no infections like many of her friends.
Then, my husband had a HUGE sty that had swelled his eyelid up to where he could hardly see out of that eye. He went to his doctor and was told to put a warm compress on it until it goes away. It was during one of the Grown Network Summits and Elena Upton was presenting. I commented on her post and she told me to get Pulsatilla for him. It worked so well!! I bought her book and use a lot of homeopathy now.
I just sent my youngest daughter to college in another state with arnica and belladonna as well as with ColdCalm and Sinus Calm.
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@Wendy can I ask what is in your super dried green mix? All of those remedies sound awesome.
@kbmbi. I like that you sent remedies with her to college. I have one of those dollar first aid kits from Walmart and I keep Aconite, Apis, Arnica, Arsenicum Album, hypericum, hepar sulf, Ledum, and Nux Vomica in the little tiny bottles for emergencies. They have come in handy so many times.
I am totally going to look up Elena Upton.
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@torey Sorry, I tried to look it up, but so manythings have changed. I'm pretty sure that it was on the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy website. Trouble is, there is so much more now on the site that it will take a while to go through.
BTW @Brindy Nat Sulph is a "must have" in our emergency kit for concussions. Long story short, it can be for concussion now or a long time ago. A key signature is when someone has a personality change after having one. The moral dilemma is: if the person who had the head injury was a son-of-a-gun before, but is a sweetheart now, should one treat?
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@frogvalley I will spend some time looking for the article. I enjoy reading Vithoulkas' take on homeopathic treatment.
That is a dilemma. I have heard of that kind of personality change following a stroke. I am not sure if treating the injury will reverse the personality change or not. I will have to ask a teacher about that one.
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@torey It will reverse the personality change injuries, but I don't know about stroke. This scenario was presented by Dr. Andre Saine decades ago to a room full of doctors (and me) at a homeopathy conference near Washington DC. There was a person who presented with head trauma and was so nice, but his prior personality was a miserable old coot. Treat or not to treat?
I love that Vithoulkas is willing to admit that homeopathy is still unfolding.
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@frogvalley Are you familiar with Lou Klein's work or courses or Jan Scholten and his work with minerals and the periodic table or his latest work with plants? I had the opportunity to study as part of Lou's Homeopathic Master Clinician course and have been to 3 of Jan's classes when he was in Canada. Both are brilliant!
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@torey I watched one of Jan's classes, but have never heard of Lou. I've been using homeopathy more than half my life, but I feel like such a beginner because of all the things coming out. Thank you for passing on the information.
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@frogvalley This is a link to Lou's website. He's not doing the Homeopathic Master Clinician course at the moment but the Foundations course is still open. https://homeopathycourses.com/
I just watched a presentation on homeopathy on the Natural Medicine at Home Summit by Carol Lourie, ND. She was in my HMC class with Lou and I have touched base with her at Han's classes as well. I believe she in in the Los Angeles area and has a very good practice. I've seen her on another summit as well, talking about remedies to use in a disaster situation.
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@torey You are such a wealth of information. Have you any experience with the Banerji Protocols? My grandson had brain cancer last year, but had to have emergency surgery so we didn't have a chance to use it. I'm now looking at the one for BPH. I'm not against combination remedies or practice as a classical homeopath, but I've seen benefits from both. Banerji Protocols have been given the stamp of approval by some classical homeopaths so I'm looking. If you have any experience, with them or BPH, please share.
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@frogvalley, I have used lots of Banerji protocols with great success. Joette Calabrese studied with the Banerjis and uses a lot of their methods. Joette had a ton of free information on her blogs too.
@torey, I watched that also. I am enjoying the natural health summit! @Marjory Wildcraft , I really enjoyed the interview with you that was part of the summit.
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@frogvalley I was classically trained so know less about combinations or multiple remedy protocols. I have heard of the Banerji protocols as there was a naturopath in my class that was using these along with other homeoprophylaxis treatments. But it was only briefly discussed. So really not familiar. Not opposed to combinations. I have used a few, from time to time, along with adjunct treatments in other modalities.
I have only once treated for BPH. It was a very advanced case in a very elderly patient. He passed away within a year of me starting to treat him. He had so many issues, I'm not sure if I had any effect on anything. Thuja was a choice because of skin conditions as well but I don't think it was the right remedy. I should have tried Equisetum but didn't have any in my remedy cabinet at the time. He may have been more of a mineral remedy constitutionally, not a plant. I have notes from a class where it was suggested to look at the Poales order for remedies for BPH.
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@Brindy Joette Calabrese has some very good postings! My classical homeopath retired after all these years, but still works with us. I'm not sure how long that will last and the remedies given so far haven't worked.
The herb Epilobium Parviflobium suggested by @jolanta.wittib seems to be having an effect, albeit very slowly.
The Banerji protocol for BPH requires being off all remedies (and even antidoting them) so that gives me pause because the person using them has some other issues.
@torey Medorrhinum 200C is part of the Banerji protocol and I've never used that remedy or that high of a dosing for so long. I'm guessing I may have to give Joette a call.
Thank you everyone for your help. I don't feel so alone and helpless anymore.
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@frogvalley is the Med recommended daily? I would be cautious using that potency for a daily protocol. But I am not familiar enough to speak on the subject. It may be part of a very effective protocol. It is in my repertory for BPH but there are 122 other remedies listed along with it. Do you have a list of the remedies used, their potencies and for how long? I would be very interested in seeing what is being used. You could PM it to me.
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I'm really enjoying reading these discussions! There is so much to learn and I love learning. Thank you'all!
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I looked through the posts, but couldn't find exactly what BPH is. Is it Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?
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@Brindy Yes. BPH is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. I think we need a glossary of Medical Abbreviations in the proposed herbal dictionary.
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I agree, I am just getting started and need all the help I can get. Thank you all so much for your input, it is very appreciated.
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No need to fear if you have a remedy maker. This device comes with over 250 pages of codes that allow you to make your own remedy in 10 seconds and it works. I'll write a bit more about it in a separate comment. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Radionic-Remedy-Maker-with-Copier-Rates-Directory-Free-Worldwide-Delivery/152596998004?hash=item23877d6774:g:TBMAAOSwKOJYKjEy
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I've been using homeopathy for quite a few years. I'm a big fan of making my own remedies. For a UTI, make a 12X remedy with your urine and it will be gone within hours in most cases. This one is pretty easy to do on your own but for higher potencies it's good to have a remedy maker. It pays for itself quickly, especially if you have a farm and want to make your own insect/pest deterrent remedies. They are sold on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Radionic-Remedy-Maker-with-Copier-Rates-Directory-Free-Worldwide-Delivery/152596998004?hash=item23877d6774:g:TBMAAOSwKOJYKjEy
One of the gals in my homeopathy forum was telling us recently about an invasion of beetles. She took a few of them and boiled them, made a remedy from them and then either watered or sprayed the affected plants. The next day ALL the beetles were gone! She said it sends them a message that "beetles died here and stay away, it's not a safe spot to feed!" There are several books about gardening/farming and homeopathy available to buy. It is good for transplant shock, plant injury, insects, strengthening plants, etc. I'm looking forward to using homeopathy more in the garden!
Tip for anyone who suffers from bronchitis or pneumonia in the fall months: This is highly likely to be mold allergy and a homeopathic mold remedy will likely eliminate it.
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@Sharie Do you have a link to the company that makes these devices? I tried to find out more information but when I searched for the company, the only links I could find were links to Etsy or Ebay. They are a new concept for me and I would like to figure out how they work. I'm not understanding the principles from the description in the ad. I am also wondering how they figure out the codes for a previously un-potenized substance. I have always been taught that to make higher potencies you need a large number of vials to go through all the lower potencies to get to, say a 200. So I need a bit more of an explanation how this works.
Anyone wanting to make their own remedies should be very familiar with homeopathy before trying out new remedies from un-proven substances.
For those who are unfamiliar with how you are treating with your own urine, it is a sub-modality of homeopathy called Autopathy. There is an excellent book on the subject, "Autopathy - A Homeopathic Journey to Harmony" by Jiri Cehovsky. Its available at most online book sellers.
If you are treating bronchitis or pneumonia, make sure there is some sort of indication of a mold infestation before treating with a mold remedy. Not everyone lives in areas where mold is a common infectious agent.
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@torey From my limited understanding of homeopathy, it seems from the like cures like concept of the system, if indicated in the materia medica, the mold remedy will help whether it is exposure to the mold or not, if the keynote symptoms match the symptoms of the patient. Just as, for instance, Rhus Tox helps with minor arthritis pain, a symptom for some from exposure to poison ivy. Or Allium Cepa helps with runny nose, cold or hay fever just as exposure to onions, allium, causes similar symptoms.
One of my next investments is in the materia medica to look up suggested remedies to confirm the suggestion and maybe a study group. That is my suggestion, to verify the use of mold remedy with a reputable materia medica for bronchitis or pheumonia. A mold infestation does not necessarily have to be the cause of the bronchitis or pneumonia but, may be found as a keynote to the mold remedy and treat the illness by helping the immune system to recognize what it is fighting and fight it more successfully.
This is only my suggestion and that comes from someone with a few years experience using OTC remedies, listening to podcasts from noted homeopaths, such as Joette Calabrese and having moderate success doing searches on homeopathic websites, NOT internet searches with Google or Bing. Hence, the next investment is in a materia medica.
Make sense?
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@Jack_Went_Splat Yes, it is a case of like cures like and a repetorization might bring up mold remedies as a choice for certain cases of lung infections. However, when we are looking at a case, we also take into account, a full case history to see if there is anything underlying that may be the initiating factor in the symptoms. Generally, if you are going to treat with a remedy such as one of the molds, there should be some indication of previous contact with a mold species. When I do a search for remedies for bronchitis there are 401 that come up but only see one of them as a mold remedy. Similarly under pneumonia there are 474 remedies listed and again only one is a mold.
If you are going to purchase physical repertories or materia medicas, I would suggest starting with Boericke's Picket Manual of Homeopath Materia Medica. John Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica is another good one.
I use a reperorization and materia medica program that can be purchased through a licence fee. It is downloaded and you don't have to be online to use it. Complete Dynamics available at: https://www.completedynamics.com/ It comes with full volumes of Boericke and Clarke along with Herring, Allen, Boger, Kent, Lippe, Nash and others. So in the long-run might be cheaper than the books. All homeopathic books seem to be very expensive.
I think we are having some great discussions in this thread.
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